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Exhibition of Sewing 



UNDER THE AUSPICES OF 
THE NEW YORK ASSOCIA- 
TION OF SEWING SCHOOLS 



AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 

MADISON SQUARE SOUTH 





AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Managers 

NEW YORK 
1897 




EXECUTIVE BOARD. 

Mrs. Richard Irvin, President. 

Miss H. S. Sackett, Vice-President. 

Miss J. Patterson, Treasurer. 

Miss Bucklin, Recording Secretary. 

Miss Dean, Corresponding Secretary, 109 East i8th Street, 

Miss B. T. Marshall, Chairman of Literature Committee. 

Miss McCready, Chairman of Conunittce on Classes and Lectures. 

Miss Edith Bryce, Chairman Auditing Committee. 

Mrs. Joseph H. Craig. 

Miss E. J. Fowler. 

Miss Parsons. 

Mrs. Woolman. 



NEW YORK ASSOCIATION OF SEWING 
c^ SCHOOLS. 






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In April, 1893, a Conference of Sewing School Workers was held 
in New York which demonstrated the need of a permanent organiza- 
tion to bring together the various agencies for teaching sewing. 

In consequence, the New York Association of Sewing Schools 
was formed in the autumn of 1893, which, according to the second 
article of its Constitution, was " to act as a centre of information for 
sewing schools and to formulate and carry out such plans and 
arrange for such meetings and classes as might be deemed advisable 
for the further development of the work." 

During the three and a half years of its existence the Association 
has fully carried out the spirit of a motion made at its organization 
that it be " non-sectarian, and should not represent any particular 
system of sewing." 

The rapid growth of the work clearly proves the great need of 
just such union and cooperation as is being accomplished. 

In the impulse that has come to manual training during the past 
few years there has been a new realization of the importance of 
sewing, so that in addition to the practical home and commercial 
value of needlework we are beginning to appreciate its great edu- 
cational value. It is the object of this Association to put within 
the reach of its members information concerning new theories and 
methods, and enable them to study these by means of conferences, 
exhibitions, and whatever other agencies may best serve the purpose. 

To aid the work done by volunteer workers, a Teachers' Class 
has been formed each year, which, in regard to price and the amount 
of time required, has placed instruction within the reach of all. To 
further increase the efficiency, especially of the non-professional 
schools, talks and lectures have been frequently given. Occasion- 
ally these have been under the auspices of the Association for all 
connected with it, and at other times, by special invitation, they have 
been given at various schools and institutions, both in and out of 
New York. 



EXHIBITION OF SEWING 



In May, 1895, an Exhibition of Sewing was held at the Hotel 
Waldorf, when there was a most interesting display, not only of 
work done in the schools of the Association, but also from some 
of the larger representative institutions of the United States, and 
specimens from the schools of France, Germany, Switzerland, Hol- 
land, Belgium, and England. 

Once more success outran expectation, and it was determined 
that in the spring of 1897 a larger and more complete exhibition 
should be held. 

Through the Department of State at Washington, the diplomatic 
and consular representatives of the United States in Europe were 
requested to invite the Governments to which they were accredited 
to participate in the Exhibition, and exhibits have been sent from 
thirty-one schools under the direction of the School Board of Lon- 
don ; from the Public Schools of Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland ; 
the Public Schools of Stockholm, Sweden ; the Professional Schools 
of Brussels and Ghent ; the Government Schools of Honolulu, 
Hawaii, and those of Japan. 

There will also be exhibits from various parts of the United 
States of work done in a large variety of schools. 

Necessarily, there is a wide difference in the intrinsic value of the 
work, but no one would think of comparing that done by the college- 
trained woman with that done by a child totally blind. Nevertheless, 
the value of the instruction may be as great in one case as in the 
other, and it is the aim of the Association to help every school con- 
nected with it, no matter under what conditions it works. With 
every new school added to its membership, the sphere of usefulness 
is enlarged, and the power of the Association to help its individual 
members is greatly increased. 

Any school or association that teaches sewing may become a 
member of this Association by the annual payment of one dollar. 

Schools Belonging to the Association. 

All Souls Mission, (All Souls — Unitarian), 

248 East 34th Street, New York, 

Miss Edith Bryce. 

American Female Guardian Society, 

29 East 29th Street, New York, 

Mrs. Frank S. Evans. - 



A AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 



Armitage Sewing School, (Fifth Avenue Baptist Church), 
343 West 47th Street, New York, 

Miss Rockefeller. 

Armour Institute, (Department of Domestic Art), 

Armour Avenue and 33d Street, Chicago, Illinois, 

Miss Henrietta Connor. 

Atlantic Avenue Chapel, 

Cor. Atlantic and Grand Avenues, Brooklyn, 

Miss Kate L. Williams. 

Bethany Memorial Chapel, (Madison x\ venue Reformed Church), 
First Avenue and 60th Street, New York, 

Mrs. H. F. Morse. 

Bethany Chapel, (Broadway Tabernacle), 

Tenth Avenue, bet. 35th and 36th Streets, New York, 

Miss E. Inslee. 

Bethlehem Chapel, (University Place Presbyterian Church), 
196 Bleecker Street, New York, 

Mrs. Charles Symington. 

Brick Church Chapel, 

228 West 35th Street, New York, 

Miss S. N. Hatfield. 

Brooklyn Training School and Home for Young Girls, 

Mrs. R. B. Taylor. 

Buffalo Association of Sewing Schools, 

Mrs. Willis K. Morgan. 

Chapel of Divine Providence, (Swedenborgian), 

356 West 44th Street, New York, 

Mrs. George L. Kent. 

Children's Guild of the Society for Ethical Culture, 
244 West 26th Street, New York, 

Mrs. J. Hirsch. 



EXHIBITION OF SEWING 



Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, 

Trenton, New Jersey, 

Mrs. L. T. Ford. 

Church of the Ascension, 

12 West nth Street, New York, 

Miss McCready. 

Church of the Covenant, (Brick Church), 

310 East 42d Street, New York, 

Miss Charlotte E. Keeler. 

Church of the Good Shepherd, (West Presbyterian Church), 
West 66th Street near Amsterdam Avenue, New York, 

Mrs. James A. Boorman. 
Church of the Holy Communion, 

49 West 20th Street, New York, 

Miss Jessie Patterson. 

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 

Park Avenue and 74th Street, New York, 

Mrs. J. J. Thomas. 
Church of the Intercession, 

Grand Boulevard and 158th Street, New York, 

Mrs. T. Hugh Boorman. 

Church of the Reconciliation, (Church of the Incarnation), 
246 East 31st Street, New York, 

Miss M. H. Trotter. 
Drexel Institute, (Department of Domestic Art), 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Mrs. Caroline A. M. Hall. 

Educational Alliance, (Young Women's Section), 

East Broadway and Jefferson Street, New York, 

Mrs. L. H. Noah. 

Emmanu-el Chapel, (University Place Presbyterian Church), 
755 East 6th Street, New York, 

Miss Dean. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 



Epiphany Mission, 

Washington, District of Columbia, 

Miss Frederica L. Rodgers. 

Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, 
45 West 2ist Street, New York, 

Miss Louise G. Muller. 
First Reformed Episcopal Church, 

Madison Avenue and 55th Street, New York, 

Miss F. Sabine. 
French Evangelical Church, 

126 West 1 6th Street, New York, 

Miss Lecleve. 
Grace Church Mission, 

410 East 14th Street, New York, 

Miss Martha Potter. 
Grace Emanu-el Church, 

212 East 1 1 6th Street, New York, 

Miss Martha Gelston. 
Grace Reformed Church, 

54th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, 

Miss L. Jost. 

Haviland Sewing Clubs, 

Rahway, New Jersey, 

Miss Lydia E. Haviland. 
Hebrew Technical School for Girls, 

267 Henry Street, New York, 

Mrs. Louis. 

Huntington Sewing School, 

Huntington, L. I., New York, 
/ Miss Emma Paulding. 

Jewish Training School, 

Cleveland, Ohio, 

Dr. S. Wolfenstein. 



EXHIBITION OF SEWING 



/Jewish Training School, 

loi West 1 2th Place, Chicago, Illinois, 

Mr. G. Bamberger. 

Madison Avenue M. E. Church, 

6oth Street and Madison Avenue, New York, 

Mrs. Charles Cohn. 

Manhattan East Side Mission, 

416 East 26th Street, New York, 

Mrs. William T. Blodgett. 

Middle Collegiate Dutch Church, 

50 East 7th Street, New York, 

Miss Mary W. Knox. 

Mount Morris Industrial School, (Mount Morris Baptist Church), 
217 East 123d Street, New York, 

Miss L. M. Clinch. 

] Normal College, 

Park Avenue, cor. 68th Street, New York, 

Miss Earl. 

New York Colored Mission, 

135 West 30th Street, New York, 

Mrs. Charles W. Lawrence. 

New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 
(Vacation Schools), 

Dr. William H. Tolman. 

New York State School for the Blind, 

Batavia, New York, 

Mrs. Gardner Fuller. 

Orphan Asylum Society in the City of New York, 

Riverside Drive and 73d Street, New York, 

Mrs. R. G. Dun. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 



Pilgrim Churcli, 

Madison Avenue and 121st Street, New York, 

Mrs. John S. Augur. 

Pratt Institute, (Department of Domestic Art), 
Brooklyn, New York, 

Miss Harriett S. Sackett. 

Pro-Cathedral Chapel, 

130 Stanton Street, New York, 

Mrs. Richard Irvin. 

Public Schools of Baltimore, Maryland, 

Miss Laura V. Davis, 

Supervisor of Sewing. 

Public Schools of Irvington, New York, 

Miss Hooper. 

Public Schools of Montclair, New Jersey, 

Mr. Randall Spaulding, 

Superintendent of Schools. 

Public Schools of New Haven, Connecticut, 
Miss Jennie Messer, 

Supervisor of Sewing. 

Public Schools of New York City, 

Mrs. A. L. Jessup, 

Supervisor of Sewing. 

Public Schools of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

Miss A. L. Kirby. 
Public Schools of Utica, New York, 

Miss Atlanta W. Cramer, 

Supervisor of Sewing. 

Public Schools of Washington, District of Columbia, 
Mrs, Margaret W. Cate, 
Supervisor of Sewing for the first 8 Divisions. 



EXHIBITION OF SEWING 



\j Public Schools of Washington, District of Columbia, 
Miss Carrie E. Syphax, 
Supervisor of Sewing for the 9th, loth and nth Divisions. 

Rhinelander School, (Children's Aid Society), 

350 East 88th Street, New York, 

Miss Pascal, 

Riverside Association, 

259 West 69th Street, New York, 

Miss Emma J. Eowler. 

Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute, 

(Department of Domestic Science), 

Miss Mary I. Bliss. 

Rogers Chapel, (South Church), 

204 West 1 8th Street, New York, 

Miss Edith Roundey. 

Roselle Sewing School, 

Roselle, New Jersey, 

Miss V. M, White. 

School of Domestic Science, 

52 Berkeley Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 

Miss Alice A. Cutting. 

Sewing School Society of the City Park Branch, (West Presby- 
terian Church), 

209 Concord Street, Brooklyn, 

Mrs. W. Hastings. 

St. Andrew's Church, 

Fifth Avenue and 127th Street, New York, 

Miss Mary A. Jacot. 

St. Andrew's Sewing School, 

Bergen Hall, Jersey City, 

Mrs. Brice Collard. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 



St. Andrew's Church, 

Richmond, Virginia, 

Miss Grace E. Arents. 

St. Banholomew's Mission, 

109 East 42d Street, New York, 

Mrs. JosejDh H. Craig. 

St. George's Church, 

Stuyvesant Square, New York, 

Miss Blandina Tappen Marshall. 

St. George's Church, 

Gates and Marcy Avenues, Brooklyn, 

Mrs. Beattie. 

St. James's Church, 

Madison Avenue and 71st Street, New York, 

Mrs. C. C. Brinckerhoff. 

St. Michael's Ch.urch, 

225 West 99th Street, New York, 

Miss Lucretia Averill. 

St. Paul's Chapel Parish School, 

Vesey and Church Streets, New York, 

Miss N. A. Black. 

St. Thomas's Mission House, 

229 East 59th Street, New York, 

Mrs. H. S. Almy. 

Stonover Sewing School, 

Lenox, Massachusetts, 

Miss Parsons. 

South Side Domestic Economy School, 

2004}^ South Broadway, St. Louis, Missouri, 

Mis'; Ellen Fisher. 



EXHIBITION OF SEWING 



Teachers College, (Department of Domestic Art), 

i2oth Street and Morningside Heights, New York, 

Mrs. Woolman. 

Temple Emanu-El Sewing School, 

22 1 East 79th Street, New York, 

Miss Bella Kayton. 

Tome Institute, (Department of Domestic Art), 
Port Deposit, Maryland, 

Miss Charlotte J. Short. 
Trinity Chapel, 

15 \^'est 25th Street, New York, 

Miss Ellen W. Nazro. 

Twenty-first Ward Mission and Industrial School, 

305 East 41st Street, New York, 

Miss Nell Comstock Carpenter. 

Vermilye Chapel, (4Sth Street Collegiate Chuich), 
794 Tenth Avenue, New York, 

Miss Sophie J. Briggs. 

West Side Day Nursery and Industrial School, 

266 West 40th Street, New York, 

Miss Elizabeth Almy Slade. 

Willow Place Mission, (Church of the Saviour — Unitarian), 
Brooklyn, New York, 

Mrs. E. E. Loml:>ard. 

Winthrop Normal and Industrial College, 

Rock Hill, South Carolina, 

Miss Lucy Dallett. 

Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 
Rochester, New York, 

Mrs. F. W. Little. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 13 

Workingmen's School of the Society for Ethical Culture, 
109 West 54th Street, New York, 

Miss Marie R. Perrin. 

Young Women's Christian Association, (Educational Department), 
7 East 15th Street, New York, 
Miss Ballard, Chairman Educational Department. 
Miss Hopkins, Chairman Needlework Classes. 

Young Women's Christian Association, (Needlework Department), 
Schermerhorn Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, 

Miss Laura A. Smith. 



GALLERY A. 

EXHIBITS FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

GALLERIES B, C, D, AND ROUND ROOM. 

EXHIBITS FROM CHURCH, TRAINING, TECHNICAL 
AND MISCELLANEOUS SCHOOLS. 

GALLERY E. 

EXHIBITS FROM FOREIGN AND MISCELLANEOUS 

SCHOOLS.* 



* Will be found in Gallery E : 

Associated Artists. 

Colonial Dames of America, New Yorlc Chapter. 
Colonial Dames of America, Baltimore Chapter. 
National Society of Colonial Dames of New York. 
National Society of Colonial Dames of Baltimore. 
Society of Decorative Art. 



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CATALOGUE. 

I 
ANNANDALE SCHOOL FOR NEEDLEWORK. 



ARMITAGE SEWING SCHOOL, 
343 West 47th Street, New York City, 

Two Divisions ; each meets once a week from October ist to 
May ist. Number of scholars, 240 ; average attendance, 115. Ages, 
5 to 14 years. Number of teachers, 28 ; average attendance, 22. 

Only seven children are allowed in each class. These remain 
in charge of the same teacher. This system may involve several 
stitches being taught at one time, but it draws teacher and scholar 
closer together, gives the teacher greater influence, and enables her 
to benefit the child in many ways other than teaching her to sew. 

3 
ASSOCIATED ARTISTS, 

115 East 23d Street, New York City. 

Tapestry showing possibilities of needle processes. 

4 

ATLANTIC AVENUE SEWING SCHOOL, 

Atlantic and Grand Avenues, Brooklyn. 

Meets Saturday mornings from the first Saturday in November to 
the first Saturday in May. Number of scholars, 141; average attend- 
ance, 85. Ages, 5 to 15 years. 



i8 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

5 
BRICK CHURCH SEWING SCHOOL, 
228 West 35th Street, New York City. 

Meets Saturday mornings from November to the third week in 
April. 

Number of scholars, 230 ; ages, 4 to 15 years. 

Volunteer and three trained teachers. 

The present system of teaching has been in use three terms. It 
is divided into a primary and four other courses. It is expected that 
an average pupil will finish the Primary, and Courses I and II in 
three terms, and Courses III and IV in a fourth term. The school 
is supported by an appropriation from the Brick Church and volun- 
tary contributions. 

BROOKLYN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, 

215 Concord Street, Brooklyn. 

The Brooklyn Industrial School Association is supported and 
maintained by the "Home for Destitute Children," There are six 
schools, all located in the poorest sections of the city. The Asso- 
ciation's object is to support Industrial Schools and take care of 
those children who are too poor to enter Public Schools. Dinner is 
provided, and once a year each child is provided with a suit of 
clothing. One afternoon of each week is devoted to sewing. The 
Pratt system is taught. Each school is under the control of a Com- 
mittee of Managers, subject to the rules of the Board of Education 
of the City of Brooklyn. 

6 

School No, i. 

Meets once a week from September i6th to June 30th, Num- 
ber of scholars in sewing classes, about 17 ; ages, 6 to 12 years. 

7 
School No. 4. 

Sewing Class meets Monday afternoons from the first Tuesday 
in September after Labor Day until the latter part of June. Num- 
ber of scholars, 13 ; ages, 8 to 13 years. The scholars are taught to 
make gingham dresses and to keep their own clothing in repair. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 19 



BUFFALO ASSOCIATION OF SEWING SCHOOLS. 

Represents 14 Industrial or Sewing Schools, which meet once 
a week from November to May. 

Number of scholars, 743 ; ages, 6 to 15 years. Number of 
teachers, 125. 

The present system of teaching was introduced January, 1896, 
except in St. Paul's and Westminster Schools. 



CHILDREN'S GUILD, SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CUL- 
TURE, 

244 West 26th Street, New York City. 

One session a week for each class. The classes meet on Thurs- 
day and Friday at 3:30 p.m. School term begins on September 15th. 
A summer term begins after the close of the public schools. 

Number of scholars, 122 ; average attendance, 65. 

The School has been in existence only two years, which will 
explain the meagreness of the exhibit. 



CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION SEWING SCHOOL, 

New York City. 

Meets Saturday mornings, 10:30 to 12 o'clock, from November ist 
to May ist, inclusive, in Parish House, 12 West nth Street. 

Number of scholars, 114 ; average attendance, 41 ; ages, 6 to 14 
years ; boys and girls admitted. Number of teachers, 10 ; average 
attendance, 9 ; all volunteers. 

Every child pays one cent every time it attends the School, and 
the money thus obtained buys all the material used. 



EXHIBITION OF SEWING 



CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION INDUSTRIAL 

SCHOOL, 

49 West 2oth Street, New York City. 

Meets Saturday mornings, lo to 12 o'clock, from November ist 
to May ist, inclusive. 

Number of scholars, 382 ; average attendance, 301 ; ages (1897), 
6 to 18 years. Number of teachers, 43 ; professionals and volunteers. 

Primary, Intermediate, and Advanced Departments. Drills and 
Kindergarten Songs. Three Courses in plain sewing (a fourth 
Course is soon to be added). Household embroidery. 

The children are encouraged to deposit in the Penny Provident 
Fund. A short opening service is held each Saturday by the 
Clergy. During Lent that service is held in church, and a short 
address is given. 

[See Advertisement, page .xi.] 

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COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA. 

New York Chapter. 

13 

COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA. 

Baltimore Chapter. 

14 
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES. 

New York. 

15 
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES. 

Baltimore. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 



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NEW YORK COLORED MISSION SEWING SCHOOL, 
135 West 30th Street, New York City. 
Sixteen sessions, January to May. 

Number of scholars, 84 ; average attendance, 65 ; ages, 5 to 15 
years. 

17 
EMMANUEL CHAPEL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, 

735 East 6th Street, New York City. 
(University Place Presbyterian Church.) 
Meets Saturday mornings, to to 12 o'clock, from November ist 
to May I St. 

Number of scholars, 270 ; average attendance, 211; ages, 6 to 15 
years. Number of teachers, 17 ; average attendance, 15. No pro- 
fessional teachers. 

18 

EMANU-EL SISTERHOOD INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. 
Meets five times a week from September to August. 
Number of scholars in Up-town Branch. 108 ; West Side, 65 ; 
ages, 7 to 13 years: 

19 
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY 

TRINITY, 

45 West 2 1 St Street, New York City. 

Meets once a week from November 27th to April 24th. 
Ages of scholars in the Intermediate Department, 5 to 14 years ; 
Dressmaking Class, 17 to 24 years. 

20 
HAMPTON NORMAL INSTITUTE, 

Hampton, Virginia. 



HAVILAND SEWING CLUBS, 

Rahway, New Jersey. 
Each class meets once a week from October to June. 
Number of scholars, 38 ; ages, 8 to 25 years. 



EXHIBITION OF SEWING 



"HEBREW TECHNICAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS," 

267 Henry Street, New York City. 

The pupils in the sewing classes range from 14 to 17. School 
term began October 5th, ends June 30th. Sewing classes are held 
five times a week. Two machine classes; three hand-sewing classes. 
There are 31 girls in the hand-sewing; 23 in the advanced class; these 
receive but one lesson a week. Eight are in the introductory class, 
and receive two lessons a week. There are two machine-sewing 
classes; one session a week each. Taught by a graduate of " Teach- 
ers College," except the introductory, which is at present in charge 
of a pupil in the Hebrew Technical School for Girls. 

There are three classes in millinery. Each class receives one 
lesson a week. 

There are three classes in dressmaking. The two advanced classes 
receive each two lessons a week, and two introductory classes receive 
each one lesson a week. 

Drawing classes are held twice a week, in connection with dress- 
making and millinery. 

The " Hebrew Technical School for Girls," a development of the 
" Louis Down-town Sabbath School," founded December, 1880, was 
opened March, 1887, with 12 pupils. It has now a register of 95. 
There are two courses: a "Commercial Course," comprising stenog- 
raphy, typewriting and bookkeeping, from which the pupils graduate 
in one year, and a " Manual Training Course," comprising dress- 
making, hand and machine sewing, embroidery, millinery, drawing, 
engraving, cooking and progressive housework, from which the 
pupils graduate after a two years' course. Everything is //ri?, except 
5 cents a lesson for stenography from those only who can afford it. 
The instructors are graduates of Pratt, Drexel and Cooper Institutes 
and Teachers College and New York Cooking School. 

23 
HOME INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, 

Asheville, North Carolina. 

Number of scholars, 1 15. Sewing divided into five Courses, of 
one year each. 

First vear — Making simple sewing book models and doll's 
clothes. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 23 

Second year — Practical sewing. 

Third year — Practical sewing. 

Fourth year — Practical sewing, making part of model sewing book. 

Fifth year — Practical sewing, complete model sewing book. 

The Home Industrial School is one of three schools in the 
mountain district of North Carolina. It is under the charge of the 
Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church of the U. S. A. 
The other schools are the Normal and Collegiate Institute and the 
Farm School. These are all boarding-schools, and designed espe- 
cially for the education of the children of the white population in that 
neighborhood. The sewing is under the special direction of a grad- 
uate of the Teachers College in Nev/ York. 

24 
INDIANS. 

Laces made by the women in Miss Sybil Carter's schools for 
North American Indians. 



25 

MADISON AVENUE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 

SEWING SCHOOL, 

Madison Avenue and 60th Street, New York City. 

Meets Saturday mornings, 10 to 12 o'clock, from November ist 
to April 17th. 

Number of scholars, 100 ; average attendance, 88 ; ages, 6 to 13 
years. 

The system is the same as that taught at Pratt Institute. 

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MOUNT MORRIS BAPTIST INDUSTRIAL 
SCHOOL, 

217 East 123d Street, New York City. 

Meets Saturday afternoons, 2 to 4 o'clock, from the first Satur- 
day in October to the last Saturday in April. 

Number of scholars, 203 ; average attendance, 174 ; ages, 5 to 
15 years ; boys and girls admitted. 



24 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

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NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, 

Batavia, New York, 

Meets five times a week from the middle of September to tlie 
middle of June. Number of scholars, 40. 

The exhibit of the New York State School for the Blind, located 
at Batavia, is the work of beginners. While machine sewing, bast- 
ing, and overcasting have been taught for many years, hand sewing 
has not been systematically taught previous to September 19, 1896. 
This School was established and is maintained by the State for the 
purpose of educating those of school age whose vision is so defect- 
ive as to deprive them of the privileges of our common schools. 
Pupils are received from all the counties of the State excepting New 
York, Kings, Queens, Suffolk, Richmond, Westchester, Putnam, and 
Rockland. 

It was at first quite difficult to interest the girls, but they have 
now grown very enthusiastic over the idea of sending their work to 
the exhibition in New York. 

[See Advertisement, page iv.] 
28 

ORPHAN ASYLUM SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF NEW 

YORK, 

Manhattan Avenue. 

Meets once a week. Number of scholars, 80 ; ages, 6 to 14 
years. 

29 
PILGRIM CHURCH INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, 
Madison Avenue, corner 121st Street, New York City. 

Meets Saturday afternoons, 2 to 4 o'clock, from the middle of 
October to the end of April. 

Number of scholars (1896), 684 ; average attendance, 217 ; 
ages, 4 to 16 years. Three departments — Kindergarten for boys 
and girls under 8 years ; Sewing Department for boys and girls ; 
Cane-seating Class for boys only. Income derived from sale of 
children's work, children's collection every Saturday, and gifts from 
friends. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 



3° 
PRATT INSTITUTE, 

Brooklyn, New York. 

Founded by Charles Pratt. Departments of High School, Fine 
Arts, Domestic Art, Domestic Science, Science and Technology, 
Kindergartens, Libraries, and Museums. 

This exhibit has, naturally, to do only with the Department of 
Domestic Art, which has 960 day students, 158 evening students, 22 
instructors, and 10 assistants. 

1. N'onnal Course of Domestic Art. Courses of Sewing, Millinery 
and Dressmaking are here represented. The exhibit of the Normal 
Class here shown, represents the progressive work of the two years' 
course in three of the studies of the department, the Sewing, Dress- 
making and Millinery. This course prepares the student to teach 
or supervise these branches. The normal training which the pupils 
receive in the studies of Psychology, Pedagogy and Normal Methods, 
together with the Practice Teaching and the other work necessary to 
their Normal training, sends them out into the field of teaching well 
equipped for their work. 

2. Pratt High School Course in Sewing, Dressmaking and Mil- 
linery, under the direction of the Department of Domestic Art. 

Freshman Year. — Sewing, 3 terms of three months each ; 5 
periods a week, fifty minutes each. The different stitches used in 
hand-sewing are taught and applied. Mending and darning taught, 
talks on the general care of the clothes ; machine stitching, draught- 
ing, cutting, fitting, and making garments in which both hand and 
machine work are used. A white skirt made with tucks, ruffle, and 
yoke or band. 

Sophomore Year. — Dressmaking, 2 terms, three months each ; 6 
periods a week, fifty minutes each. Students are taught to take 
measurements of the figure and draught skirts and waists. They 
then make for themselves a dress of cotton fabric, and a lined dress 
skirt of woollen or silk material. 

Junior Year. — Millinery, 2 terms of three months ; 6 periods a 
week, fifty minutes each. A short course in the making and trim- 
ming of hats is given to develop that lightness of touch and skilful 
handling which the delicate materials demand. The imagination 
must be trained to picture the desired result so clearly, and the hand 
to execute so unerringly, that no unnecessary handling of material 



26 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 



need be used. Here, the laws of form, proportion, and color must 
be observed. 

Senior Year. — Dressmaking, 2 terms of three months each ; 6 
periods a week, fifty minutes each. This course is given for instruc- 
tion in the more advanced draughting. The additional study of 
beautiful form, color, and texture, in relation to the clothing of the 
body, and some knowledge of the intimate connection between the 
laws of beauty and the laws of health is introduced. Each pupil 
designs and makes for herself a lined and boned waist of woollen or 
silk material, a thorough preparation for this final project having 
been gained by the previous training in sewing, dressmaking, 
millinery, instrumental and free-hand drawing, and elementary 
design and water-color sketching. During a portion of the Sopho- 
more and Junior years, part of the course in drawing consists of 
free-hand drawing and water-color sketches of costumes as a prep- 
aration for designing the hats and dresses made in millinery and 
dressmaking. 

3. Regular Courses of Sewing. — ist, 2d, 3d and 4th grades. 12 
months, four hours a week. The work exhibited embraces classes 
in four grades, each class receiving two lessons a week of two hours 
in length. 

First Grade. — Small exercises, using stitches employed in hand- 
sewing, and note-books. 

Second Grade.— Draughts of undergarments from measure, ma- 
chine exercises on small models, cutting and making undergarments. 

Third Grade. — Dressing sacques and shirt waists from patterns ; 
dresses of washable materials draughted, cut and made by students. 

Fourth Grade. — Night dresses and baby dresses draughted from 
measurement ; baby dresses made by hand. Children's dresses 
made from pattern. Samples of lace and embroidery joining. 

4. Childrens Course in Sewing. — Two years, two hours a week. 
The children in these classes are from the ages of 6 to 15 years. 
The course is divided into six grades, the first four embracing the 
same exercises, with a few exceptions, as the first grade of the regu- 
lar course. Useful articles are introduced at the close of each 
grade, which show the child how the various exercises are applied. 
The fifth and sixth grades include draughting, cutting and making 
of small garments. 

Throughout the course the instructor explains to each class the 
manufacture of needles, thimbles, thread, emery and buttons, and 
exhibits each m the different stages of manufacture, from the raw 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 27 

material to the finished article. In all classes the note-books are 
carefully written up by the pupil, and corrected from time to time 
by the teacher. 

The work of the regular and special classes in dressmakina: and 
millinery is not shown for want of space, but may be fairly judged 
by the dressmaking and millinery of the Normal Class. 

5. Drawing and Color taught in connection with Dressmaking and 
Millinery three hours each week. This course has been found most 
helpful to the student in training the eye and cultivating the taste to 
appreciate good proportion, and harmony and contrast. The course 
begins with the free-hand drawing from vase forms and bas-reliefs. 
The millmery students then take up the drawing of hats, untrimmed 
and trimmed, and finally sketch them in water color, working 
either from the models themselves, or originating their own designs. 
The dressmaking students take up the study of drapery after learn- 
ing the fundamental principles in the vase form, etc., and finally 
sketch gowns, both in pencil and water color. 

Art Needlework.— '^^^ViX-^x course, five half days each week. The 
course aims to promote artistic feeling for color, texture, and form 
in decoration, and every possible means is used to develop good 
taste in the student by surrounding her with the best in this line of 
art. The first year is devoted to stitcher}', taught on samplers ; the 
knowledge thus obtained being then applied to articles worked in 
color for home decoration. A parallel course in design is a part of 
this year's study. In the first term the education of the arm and the 
sense of proportion are cultivated by a study of curved lines. The 
second and third terms are devoted to the study of plant life. 
Sketches are made in pencil and water color, and the forms obtained 
applied to conventional design. 

The second year is devoted to the study of church symbolism 
and that form of work best adapted to the decoration of large sur- 
faces. Three sessions each week are devoted to embroidery ; two 
to design. 

Afternoon Class. — Two sessions a week. This class is so arranged 
that different branches of the work may be taken up as desired. 
Design is not included in this course. 

Saturday Morning Class. — This class for school girls aims to lay 
the foundation for artistic work in home decoration. The work is 
individual, and the kind of work taken up is left to the instructor in 
charge. 

[See Advertisement, page viii.] 



28 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

31 

PRO-CATHEDRAL CHAPEL SEWING SCHOOL, 

130 Stanton Street, New York City. 

Meets Saturday mornings, 10:30 to 12 o'clock, from the first 
Saturday in November to the last Saturday in March. Number of 
scholars, 218 ; average attendance, 190 ; ages, 4 to 15 years. 

32 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK. 

Belong to the Buffalo Association of Sewing Schools, and repre- 
sent 2,700 scholars in sewing classes in 44 schools. The sewing is 
taught in the fifth and sixth grades only, and was introduced 
February, 1896. 

33 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF IRVINGTON, 

Irvington, New York. 

Sewing lesson of forty minutes once a week from September to 
June, inclusive. Average number of scholars in each class, 40 ; 
ages, 5 to 13 years. 

The sewing has been but recently put into the schools in Irvington. 
The models sent to the Exhibition represent the average sewing, 
with perhaps three exceptions of models taken from the best work. 

34 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF NEW HAVEN. 

Primary Grades. 

Sewing lesson of thirty minutes twice a month from September 
to June. Average age of scholars, 7 years. 

The work in the lower grades is an experiment this year. A 
course in cutting and cardboard work, to give elementary training 
in the use of the scissors and needle, is being tried. Such a course 
will serve as an excellent preliminary training to later work in sewing. 
Care is taken to adajn the material to the size of the child's hands 
and to his power of apprehension. That defini::e attention should be 
given to beauty in all of this work is very important. It is believed 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 29 

that the beautiful forms and borders given in the drawing can be 
applied in these lessons. 

Cardboard is changed to canvas as soon as the child has gained 
a fair command of the needle. 

35 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF NEW HAVEN. 

Litermediate Grade. 

Sewing lesson of one hour once a week during the regular school 
year. Number of scholars, nearly 28,000 ; ages, 8 to 14 years. 

Sewing has been taught in New Haven Public Schools for nearly 
ten years. Great advancement has been made during this time. 
Opposition has been met and conquered, until now both parents and 
teachers recognize its true value as an educational factor. The 
exhibit is arranged in steps, beginning with basting. The materials 
for the regular lesson work are furnished by the city, the pupils 
bringing garments from home for practice work. In this way they are 
taught to apply the stitches learned to practical purposes. Dolls' 
garments are cut and made, applying all the principles used in mak- 
ing the larger articles. The time from Thanksgiving to Christmas 
has been given to fancy work, which is found to be a pleasing and 
beneficial change. 

BOARDMAN MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL, 

New Haven. 

The work on exhibition represents three classes in the school, 
Freshman, Junior and Senior. The ages of the girls ranging from 
13 to 18 years. The school year begins about the first of September 
and ends the last of June ; and during that time two hours each 
week are devoted to this department of manual work. The pupils 
in the freshmen year, having been taught to sew in the grades, 
begin with the draughting, cutting and making of undergarments. 
They are taught the use of different sewing machines, also the growth 
and manufacture of the materials they work on. In the junior year 
dressmaking is taught for two hours each week. The pupils take 
measurements of each other and learn to draught and fit skirts and 
waists, using the Flesher system of dress cutting. Each one then 



30 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

makes for herself a simple cotton dress, and applies, as far as possible, 
the knowledge already gained. 

The course in millinery extends through the first half of the 
senior year, or twenty weeks, with two hours each week. The 
pupils practise upon straw and felt hats with cotton flannel, cambric 
and cheese cloth in place of velvet, ribbon and crepe-de-chine. They 
are taught the fundamental principles of millinery and the trimming 
of simple hats. During the last half of the senior year the girls make 
their own graduation dresses. 

37 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK CITY. 

Grammar School, 41. Greenwich Avenue. 

Primary Department, 41. Greenwich Avenue. 

Grammar School, 71. East 7th Street. 

Primary Department, 71. East 7th Street. 

Grammar School, 77. East 86th Street. 

Primary Department, 77. East 86th Street. 

Grammar School, 13. East Houston Street. 

Primary Department, 13. East Houston Street. 

Grammar School, 50. East 20th Street. 

Primary Department, 50, East 20th Street. 

Grammar School, 47. East 12th Street. 

Primary Department, 47. East 12th Street. 

Grammar School, 43. West 129th Street. 

Primary Department, 43. West 1 29th Street. 

Grammar School, 5. Edgecombe Avenue. 

Primary Department, 5. Edgecombe Avenue. 

Grammar School, 85. East 138th Street. 

Primary Department, 85. E>ast i3Sth Street. 

Grammar School, 9.* West End Avenue. 

Primary Department, o.* West End Avenue. 

Grammar School, 23. Mulberry Street. 

Primary Department, 2-^. Mulberry Street. 

Grammar School, 103.* 119th Street and Madison Avenue. 

Primary Department, 103.* 119th Street and Madison Avenue. 

Grammar School, 1, Vandewater Street. 

Primary Department, i. Vandewater Street. 



* The sewing has only been recently introduced in these schools. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 31 

Primary Departments. 

Primary Department No. 40. East 23d Street, 

No. 79. East ist Street. 

No. 89. Lenox Avenue. 

No. 16. West 13th Street. 

No. 15. East 5th Street. 

The sewing is taught only in the Primary Department of these 
schools, as the Grammar Department is for boys. 

Primary Schools. 

No. 2. City Hall Place. 

No. 4. East 1 6th Street. 

No. 8. Mott Street. 

No. 12. Roosevelt Street. 

No. 14. Oliver Street. 

No. 13. Downing Street. 

No. 25. Wooster Street. 

No. 29. East 19th Street. 

No. 31. East 2d Street. 

No. 34. Pearl Street. 

No. 5. East 4th Street. 

No. 24. Horatio Street. 

No. 19. West 135th Street. 

Designs made and worked by the children. 

Specimens of blackboard lessons by the teachers. 

All the work is taught from blackboard illustrations. 

Model books made by the teachers. 

As a branch of manual training, sewing has been taught in some 
of the Public Schools of New York for about eight years. The 
instruction begins in the Third Primary Grade and continues for 
four years. 

The course consists of basting, outlining designs, running, back- 
stitching, overcasting, felling, gathering, buttonholes, sewing on 
buttons, patching, weaving, stocking darning, dress darning, night- 
dress opening, sleeve opening, piecing bias facings, tucking, Ken- 
sington stitch, catch-stitch, feather-stitch, hemstitch, draughting and 
making child's waist, small model drawers, gored skirt and shirt 
waist. 



32 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

Extra, or busy work, is given to pupils who have satisfactorily 
finished the models of their grade. This enables the child to com- 
bine designing and sewing, make a finished article, and is an incen- 
tive to renewed effort on the part of the other children. 

The pupils vary in age from 7 to 14. The lessons are given by 
special teachers, one hour a week. Classes average 50 children. 

Evening Schools. 

No. 17. West 47th Street. 

1 . Work of preparatory class. 

2. Draughting and dressmaking. 
No. 59. East 57th Street. 

Work of preparatory class. 
Draughting and dressmaking. 



I. 
2. 



The work in the Evening Schools aims to be a practical course 
in simple stitches and seams, buttonholes, making undergarments, 
mending, draughting to measure, and making dresses. 

38 and 39 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF PHILADELPHIA. 

All the sewing sent by Philadelphia is the work of the pupils of 
the Public Schools, 

There is no charge for the instruction. The city provides the 
tools and materials necessary for teaching all the various seams and 
stitches used in making garments, but the pupils furnish the cotton 
or woollen cloth of which the garments are made, and these garments 
are their property. 



Day Schools. 

The work of the day schools is in the care of the Superintendent 
of Schools, Dr. Edward Brooks. 

Sewing begins in the third school year. During the third and 
fourth years the pupils receive instruction in sewing for one hour and 
a half each week of the school term. During the next four years 
they receive one hour's instruction each week. 

They are taught by 46 special teachers appointed for teaching 
sewing. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 33 

The children are taught to draught patterns for all the garments 
that they wear. The materials for this purpose are supplied by the 
Board of Education. 

The ages of the pupils in the Elementary Schools vary greatly. 
I'he majority commence sewing at 8 or 9 years of age, and they 
enter the High School at 14 or 15. 

The term (year) lasts from the middle of September until the end 
of May. 

During the third and fourth school years pupils receive two les- 
sons (three-fourths of an hour each) per week. In grammar schools 
they receive one lesson, of fifty minutes, per week. 

The number of pupils in the sewing classes varies : from 35 to 
60 pupils are often taught together. The classes will average 45 
pupils each. 

There is no " Superintendent of Sewing " in Philadelphia. Dr. 
Brooks has placed this branch of the school work under the care of 
one of his assistants. Miss L. A. Kirby. 

The "Course of Study" used is prescribed by the Superinten- 
dent, Dr. Edward Brooks. 

There are about 35,000 children in the Elementary Schools who 
receive instruction in sewing ; 652 in the High School, and about 
350 in the Normal School. 



HIGH SCHOOL, 

Sewing is taught during the first year only. The pupils receive 
one lesson (fifty-five minutes) per week during the school year. 
They are required to do sewing at home for two hours per week. 

The work is in charge of Mrs. Sophia Moffett. 

The classes average 40 pupils each. 



NORMAL SCHOOL. 

The pupils in the Normal School are taught how to teach sewing. 
They do not make garments, hence none appear in this catalogue. 
Their work is shown in several books which will be found in the ex- 
hibit. These contain illustrations of the various lessons taught and 
directions for giving the lessons to pupils. 

The pupils of the Normal School give lessons in sewing to the 

3 



34 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

children of the School of Practice, which is connected with the 
Normal School. 

The work is in the care of Miss Fannie Patton. 

The classes average 40 pupils each. 



39 

Night Sc?iools. 

Four years ago the first public Night Sewing School was estab- 
lished in Philadelphia by Mr. Alexander Adaire, Chairman of the 
Night School Committee of the Board of Education. A school in 
the centre of the milling district was selected for this purpose, and 
Mrs. Emma Epley, the present principal of the Henry Armitt Brown 
Night Sewing School, was given charge of this new venture. 

In the second week in October, 1893, the school opened and 
sessions were held three evenings each week, these sessions continu- 
ing until the last of February. The school opened with 18 pupils. 
Before the week closed 150 were enrolled. When the term ended in 
February, 600 women and girls were in attendance. 

The work has grown so much in favor that at the present time 
16 night sewing schools are scattered throughout the city, with over 
5,000 pupils receiving instructions, from the second week in October 
to the close of February. The age of those in attendance ranges 
from 12 to 50 years. 

The three branches taught in the schools ^xo. plain sewing, inilli- 
fiery, dressmaking. 

The course in plain sewing consists of darning, patching, and 
making of domestic garments. As many of the pupils know but 
little of sewing, instructions are given in the use of the needle and 
thimble. 

In the millinery classes the pupils are first taught on canton 
flannel. This course consists of wiring, covering, lining, making 
of folds, trimming. When sufficient skill has been acquired, the 
learners are then promoted to the making of velvet, lace, tulle, 
and braided hats. The renovating of velvets and laces is also 
taught in this department. 

In the dressmaking course the same method is pursued. The 
pupils are required to draught and make simple garments, beginning 
with a child's waist, and gradually progressing to the making of a 
woman's well-fitting gown. We encourage the making over of old 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 35 

dresses. In this department, too, we aim to give instruction m 
color, form, design, in finishing and draping, and to train the 
judgment and taste in the selection of suitable material. This is 
done by the actual handling of goods. 

The good results of our work in the schools is seen in the fact 
that many of our former pupils have left the mills and established 
themselves as dressmakers and milliners in their own districts. 

1"he exhibit that we send is from the various night schools 
throughout the city and is representative of the work done during 
the winter sessions of 1896-97. 

40 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. 

(Sewing introduced and maintained by the Women's Educational 
Union of Rochester.) 

Sewing has been started in the Public Schools of Rochester as 
an experiment with the permission of the Board of Education. 



41 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. 

Number of pupils, 1,250. Ages, from 10 to 14 years. School 
year forty weeks, from September to July. Each class receives one 
hour's instruction in sewing. The work is elementary, the aim being 
to give the pupils good training in the fundamental principles. The 
work is based on educational principles and is progressive ; at the 
same time such lines of work have been arranged as will be of m.ost 
practical benefit to the pupil. Each series of stitches taught is 
directly applied in the making of some garment or article. The 
pupils from the first are taught to cut and prepare their work. 
Classes average 45 pupils. 

42 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF UTICA, NEW YORK. 

At the opening of the Public Schools, in this city, September 
9, 1896, sewing for the girls was introduced into the fifth and sixth 
grades in all the Intermediate Departments of the schools. The 
minimum time to be devoted to this subject is one hour once in 



36 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

two weeks. The average age of pupils, in fifth grade, is lof years ; 
in sixth grade, iij years. 

Names enrolled, 635 ; average attendance, 550. Average num- 
ber of pupils in each class; 20. The instructions are under the di- 
rection of asupervisor ; the lessons are taught by an assistant in the 
ordinary classroom. This being the introductory year, each grade 
has been given the same instruction. The second year the sixth 
grade pupils will be given advanced work. The following is an out- 
line of work done this year: 

Position of pupil while sewing. How to choose needle and 
thread. The length of thread. Drill in threading the needle ; 
also in drawing the thread. How to make a knot. The use of the 
thimble. Practice in cutting small pieces of cloth by the thread. 
The use of the emery. The position of the needle, and the proper 
way of holding the work in the different stitches taught. How to 
begin, join, and fasten the thread. How to fold hems. Neatness 
and order in the care of the work. 



Stitches Taught. 

Basting ; over-hand ; running ; overcasting ; back-stitching ; 
running and back-stitching ; hemming ; gathering and laying of the 
gathers ; sewing on a band ; hemming down a band ; darning 
stockinet. 

The work on exhibition is numbered in the order in which the 
different stitches were taught. 

43 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON, D. C. 

Divisions 1-8. 

The teaching of sewing in the Public Schools of the District of 
Columbia was begun in a few schools, as an experiment, in Febru- 
ary. 1888, two teachers being placed in charge of this work. 

The result was so satisfactory that at the beginning of the next 
school year arrangements were made for a general introduction of 
the work into all the schools of the city and county. Four addi- 
tional teachers were appointed, which number has been increased 
each year, until at the present date (1897) there are regularly em- 
ployed 15 teachers in this branch of education. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 37 

Instruction in plain sewing is given to all girls of the 3d, 4th and 
5th Grades, one hour per week. 

A course in cutting and fitting by measurements is given to the 
6th Grade. For this purpose rooms are fitted up in different sec- 
tions of the city to which pupils from adjacent schools are sent. 

One and a half hours' instruction a week is given to each class 
of not more than eighteen pupils. 

There are at present 6,500 girls receiving instruction in sewing. 

The necessary expenses for materials, etc., are paid from the 
regular school appropriations for industrial instruction, thus involv- 
ing no additional outlay on the part of parents. 

44 
Divisions 9, 10, n. 

The ages of the pupils of the sewing department are from 8 years 
of age, being first year pupils, to 11 and 12 years of age, being 
fourth year pupils. 

Our school term begins the third week in September and ends 
the third week in June. 

We hold one session of one hour per week, for the regular sew- 
ing classes, and one session of one hour and a half per week for the 
dressmaking or cutting classes. 

Sewing was first introduced into the Public Schools of Washing- 
ton, January i, 1888, under the management of the Miner Trustee 
School Board. At first only one teacher was employed. The teach- 
ing force has been steadily increased up to the present time, until 
we have eight teachers. 

The Course consists of three years' plain sewing and one year in 
dressmaking. 

During the past eight years 21,692 pupils have been regularly 
instructed in plain sewing, 75,543 models have been made, 30,435 
garments, 44,342 buttonholes (in 1895-1896 the buttonhole count 
was not taken), 1,313 patterns have been draughted by actual meas- 
urement. 

In the Dressmaking Department, which was first introduced in 
September. 1891, 1,439 pupils have received training; 2,394 skirts 
have been cut, 988 skirts made, 3,639 waists cut, 2.000 waists made, 
and 3,616 patterns of sleeves, collars, pockets and revers have been 
also cut. 



38 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 



The Emily G. Jones System of cutting-out, such as is used in 
the London Schools, is used in the draughting of plain garments. 
And the de Lamorton French System is used in our Dressmaking 
Department. 

45 

THE RHINELANDER SCHOOL 

(Children's Aid Society), 

350 East 88th Street, between First and Second Avenues. 

Each class has an hour's lesson once a week, beginning October 
ist and continuing as late as possible into the spring. 

Ages of scholars, 6 to 12 years. 

Sewing in charge of a special teacher. 

The quilts are the work of the third grade ; girls of about 8 and 
9 years old. 

The sample pieces are from the two higher grades ; the doll also 
being dressed by them. 

The flag and pieces of embroidery were made by the first class. 

The evening classes are to take embroidery lessons also. 

46 

ROCHESTER ATHEN^UM AND MECHANICS' 
INSTITUTE 

(Department of Domestic Science), 

38 South Washington Street, Rochester, New York. 

Ages of scholars, 10 years to middle age (majority, 20 to 30 
years). 

Sewing, 

The complete course includes three grades of three months each, 
with two lessons a week. Pupils are required to record in note- 
books, which are submitted for correction, the instruction received 
at each lesson, and a written examination is given at the end of each 
term. The course in sewing includes all kinds of hand sewing, 
machine sewing, and the draughting, cutting, fitting, and making of 
undergarments and dresses of wash material. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 



39 



Children's Classes. — These classes are arranged for children 
between the ages of 6 and 15. The course of study has been 
arranged to suit their capacity and to arouse their interest. These 
classes meet on Saturday mornings, from 9:30 to 11:30, and on 
three afternoons a week, from 4 to 6 o'clock, after the close of 
school. Throughout the course the pupil writes in a note-book the 
important points of each lesson illustrated as fully as possible by 
diagrams. 

Dressmaking. 

The complete course is systematically graded, and comprises 
three grades of three months each. Two lessons a week of two 
hours each are given. This course will embrace free-hand drawing, 
and form and color study. The pupils are shown a variety of mate- 
rials, and are instructed in regard to the texture, color, and suitability 
of each for various uses and for different types of wearers. The 
talks on form treat of the most becoming manner of making a dress, 
by adapting the lines of the material to those of the figure, and in 
selecting trimmings suited to the materials and to the character of 
the figure. Dresses are planned to carry out these principles. 

[See Advertisement, page xi.] 

47 
- COOPER SETTLEMENT SEWING SCHOOL, 
269 Avenue C, New York City. 

School term, September ist to July ist. Ages of scholars, 8 to 
14. Two sessions of one hour each a week. 

The sewing sent from the Cooper Settlement, 269 Avenue C, 
may be better understood after a few words of explanation. So 
much has been done in the teaching of sewing by means of drill and 
systems of exact models, executed in fine stitches, that any exhibit 
ignoring these things may not appeal to judges of needlework. 

The object of all instruction at the Cooper Settlement is to 
induce the children, in whatever material they use, to express their 
own individuality, to enable them in their daily living so to see and 
appreciate good quality, color, and suitability of material that they 
may instinctively avoid poor and tawdry display. 

Careful workmanship is encouraged and desired, but that the 



40 



EXHIBITION OF SEWING 



child should have a clear conception of the use and beauty of her 
work and express it appropriately is the chief aim. 

Classes in drawing and in simple design and color, study coordi- 
nate with those in sewing. Sewing, as far as is possible, is based on 
original desiga applied to some object to be made. This method 
stimulates the child's intelligence and keeps active her interest in 
needlework. The drawing classes afford a most valuable means of 
developing the child's powers of observation and of strengthening in 
her the habit of independent thinking, while that skill in the niceties 
of plain needlework, usually a matter of mechanical drill, comes 
more spontaneously if the child has originated and planned her work 
thoughtfully. Technique, however, is absolutely subordinated to 
free expression, hence the miscellaneous character and varying 
degrees of skill in the illustrative examples we have ventured to send 
to your exhibition. They include in one frame : 

First — Specimens of the basket-weaving of the North American 
Indians, by children of from six to ten years, who have been much 
interested in untwisting the rope iibres and originating the quaint 
basket forms while they have been told something of the race with 
which the art originated. The finger training is excellent, and there 
is no strain on the eyesight. 

Second — Specimens of weaving done on small hand frames in 
connection with which the variety of weaves, patterns, and com- 
bination of colors are under observation, the mind of the child 
being led to trace the development of the race as expressed in the 
practice of handicraft. 

Third — Crocheted hammocks and slippers, making a distinct gain 
in manual dexterity and the deft use of raw materials towards 
certain ends. 

F()urth — Miniature clothes-pin bags, bringing manufactured 
material into use, and emphasizing the need of strong, even 
stitches. 

Fifth — Shoe bags, by more advanced pupils, from ten to twelve 
years, stamped and embroidered by the children from their original 
designs. 

The second frame contains work cut out and fitted together by 
girls from ten to twelve years of age. It includes, as will be seen, 
aprons simply hemmed ; outing sacks unfinished, but showing the 
advance to work of greater complexity ; linen squares with original 
designs applied in a manner considered appropriate by the class, 
showing creative power. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 41 

The third frame contains original applied design executed in 
embroidery, shown in a centrepiece and two small pieces of linen 
for the dining-table, a handkerchief and case, and two portfolios 
made by an advanced class of working girls. 

Beside the frames containing the articles scheduled above, we 
send a small bed, the furnishings of which, including mattress and 
pillows, were made by three girls of from fourteen to fifteen. Each 
article was made from measurements taken by the girls themselves, 
who also decided upon and selected their materials with due regard 
to their fitness and beauty. This work afforded an opportunity for 
talks on the evolution of the bed, which was traced from primitive 
rudeness through mediaeval splendor of an unsanitary character to 
the modern bed. 

There is also a small dining-table with napkins and tablecloth 
hemmed by children of from eight to ten years of age. It was the 
text for talks on home keeping, the fathers' and mothers' provision 
of food and exercise of hospitality with good cheer. 



SCHOOL OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE, 
52 Berkeley Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Number of scholars, 30 ; ages, 19 to 30 years. 

Two lessons a week in sewing, one in dress-cutting, and one in 
dressmaking, from October ist to June ist. 

The Course in Educational Sewing is designed for teachers, but 

\ is adapted to other students. Each pupil is required to complete 

a series of twenty models, and write teaching exercises on the same. 

Talks are given on the manufacture of cotton, wool, silk, needles, 

pins, etc. 

Draughting Course consists of lessons in draughting undergar- 
ments and simple articles, as bibs, pockets, etc. Garments made are 
reduced to one-quarter size. 

Dress-cutting Course includes use of Mrs. Flesher's Tailor Sys- 
tem, cutting of waist, and fitting. 

Dressmaking Course includes finishing of waist, cutting and 
finishing of skirt. 



42 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

Matron's Sewing Course gives practical work in sewing pertain- 
ing to all departments of the house, including mending. 

A Millinery Course is also included in the Domestic Art Depart- 
ment. This is a course designed for home use. 

[See Advertisement, page ix.] 



49 
SOCIETY OF DECORATIVE ART, 

14 East 34th Street, New York City. 

The class in "Italian Cutwork " of the Society commenced in 
January, 1896, with six members, contributors to the salesroom of 
the Society, who received weekly lessons gratis from one of the 
Managers. After receiving instruction for five months, these ladies, 
already skilled in fine needlework, were able to undertake the orders 
which had been waiting for them, and carry them out successfully, 
with occasional hints as to the detail of the work. Amateurs were 
also taught in class, the samples on exhibition being used as models. 
Two ideas are represented by these classes. First, that a knowledge 
of fifteen or twenty stitches, derived from the beautiful old Italian 
Cutwork of the sixteenth century — the forerunners of Venice point 
— gives an insight into the study of lace, otherwise unattainable. 

Second, that for household linen, it is possible to simplify and 
adapt these old designs, giving \.\\& feelings even if the former elabo- 
rate execution be impossible in this nineteenth century. 

The linen thread — fil cmir de lin — and the hand-woven linen 
used, the Decorative Art is obliged to import for the purpose. The 
success which has attended the work of these classes shows that the 
ideas are of practical and educational value, and capable of much 
greater extension. 

50 

SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL CLASSES, 

Norfolk, Virginia. 

Two lessons a day (Saturdays excepted) throughout the year. 

Number of scholars, 400 ; ages, from 7 to 24 years. The 
school is not yet a year old. The exhibit consists of models from 
one teacher and two pupils. One, whose book is sent, is just finish- 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 43 

ing her course, and will get a certificate for a first-class seamstress. 
The other is only eight years old, and four months ago the child did 
not know how to thread a needle. This is a colored school. 



51 
ST. ANDREWS SEWING SCHOOL, 

2067 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 

Meets Saturday mornings from the middle of October to the 
middle of April. 

Number of scholars, 300 ; average attendance, 230 ; ages, 3 to 
17 years. The school is graded, and is designed to give each 
scholar a systematic training in sewing. Every scholar receives for 
her own each garment she makes, and no work is sold from the 
School. It is supported by the Ladies' Guild of St. Andrew's 
Church. 

52 
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S MISSION SEWING SCHOOL, 

207 East 42d Street, New York City. 

Meets Saturday mornings, for one hour and a half, from the 
middle of October to the first Saturday in May. 

Number of scholars, 488 ; average attendance, 400 ; ages, 5 to 
16 years. 

ST. JAMES' SEWING SCHOOL, 

Madison Avenue and 7rst Street, New York City. 

Meets Saturday mornings, 10 to 12 o'clock, from November to 
May. 

Number of scholars, 175 ; ages, 5 to 13 years. 

The course consists of First, Second, and Third Grades for girls ; 
one Grade for boys. Children are promoted as each piece is finished 
satisfactorily. Garments are made when course is completed. 



44 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

54 
ST. MICHAEL'S INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, 

225 West 99th Street, New York City. 

Meets Saturday mornings, 10 to 12 o'clock, from the second 
Saturday in November to the middle of May. 

Number of scholars, 225; average attendance, 90 per cent.; 
ages, 6 to 14 years. 

55 

ST. THOMAS' MISSION SEWING SCHOOL, 

229 East 59th Street, New York City. 

Meets once a week from October to June. 
Number of scholars, 242 ; ages, 5 to 14 years. 

56 
STONOVER SEWING SCHOOL, 

Lenox, Massachusetts. 

Meets Saturday mornings, 10:30 o'clock, from July 15th to 
October 15th. 

Number of scholars, 102 ; ages, 4 to 16 years. Primary and 
Courses I, II, HI, IV. The present system has been in use three 
seasons. 

57 
TEACHERS COLLEGE, 

Morningside Heights, 120th Street, West, New York City. 

Exhibit. 

I. Series of models contained in the " Sewing Course " pub- 
lished by Teachers College. Four frames. 

II. Sewing of Horace Mann School. Five grades. Ages, 6 to 
12. (Boys and girls in first three grades.) Time, 80 minutes a 
week in each grade. Work, entire preparation of the model : 
i.e., folding, matching, basting, etc., is done by the children. 
The work of exhibition was judged and selected by the children, 
except in Grade I. Six frames. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 45 

III. Study of Textiles. Small samples to illustrate the course. 
Four frames. 

IV. Miscellaneous Exhibits. 

(I) Dressmaking. Full-sized draughts are drawn and then 
reduced to one-half ; the garment is made in the 
smaller size. This saves time, and the completed 
article serves for a model for the teacher. Those who 
desire to make the full-sized garment are at liberty to 
do so. The exhibit shows a series of the half-sized 
garments. 
(II) Books and models of high school sewing and machine 
work. (Dressmaking was begun only this year in the 
high school and cannot be represented in the exhibit.) 

(III) Course of Drawing and Color in connection with 

dressmaking. Cards one-fourth the true size and 
illustrating the steps ; not the full course. 

(IV) The " Sewing Course " in use at Teachers' College. 

Two show cases. 

COURSE FOR TEACHERS. 

The Domestic Art Department, supplemented by the college 
courses, trains teachers and supervisors of its branch of manual 
training. It aims to give them a broad outlook on subjects con- 
nected with sewing, their educational value and means of teaching 
them in all grades of schools and missions. To develop taste and 
appreciation of beauty in the healthful covering of the body and in 
the decoration of the home, topics leading to this end receive special 
attention. 

Those taking the course leading toward the diploma have prac- 
tice teaching in the classes of the school to thoroughly fit them for 
their chosen work. For a fuller statement of the preparation of the 
teacher, see below the work in the Horace Mann School and Manual 
Training High School. 

Certain classes are open to those outside of the college who desire 
to study on these lines. 

Horace Mann School. 

The course in sewing in the Horace Mann School has for its aim 
the development of character in the child. Special attention is given 



46 EXHIBITION' OF SEWING 

to child study and psychology, so that the mental need of the indi- 
vidual child may be known. The attention, temperament, physical 
condition, home influence and manual ability of each pupil are con- 
sidered, to guide the teacher in her work. 

Children in first years in school are carefully guarded from injur- 
ing their eyes. Drills are given them for threading, holding and 
using the needle, for the use of thimble, scissors, tape measures, etc. 
Coarse needles are used and large stitches demanded. 

Class teaching is used in all grades to train the attention and 
observation. The work is judged by the children. The demon- 
stration frame and board work play a large part in the teaching. 

Each grade has its principles, its application of these principles 
to some article or garment, and additional work to keep the quicker 
children busy until the class is ready for the next step. 

Talks on new stitches and their uses, the manufacture of textiles, 
the cost of material, healthful dress, the home and its beautifying, 
etc., are given for ten minutes before every lesson. These are found 
to develop the child in expression, in wider interests, and in appre- 
ciation of work and the worker. 

The High School. 

The course aims to make clear the fundamental principles of 
dressmaking. Plain sewing, patching, darning, simple embroidery, 
machine stitching, taking of accurate measurements, economical 
cutting and careful fitting, all receive attention. Each student 
draughts, fits and makes for herself (i) some simple articles of 
underwear, (2) an unlined skirt and shirt waist, and (3) a lined 
wool dress. 

The work covers three grades of the High School and occupies 
eighty minutes a week. Such subjects as tend to develop good taste 
are discussed in the classes. 

[See Advertisement, page iv.] 
58 

TWENTY-FIRST WARD MISSION AND INDUSTRIAL 

SCHOOL, 
305 East 41st Street, New York City. 

Number of pupils, 48; average attendance, 20. One session a 
week on Saturday afternoon. School term from October to April. 
Age of pupils, from 4 to 13 years, inclusive. The exhibit is a sam[)Ie 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 47 

of what has been accomplished by adopting the Children's Course of 
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, in less than two seasons. 

59 
VACATION SCHOOLS OF THE NEW YORK ASSOCIA- 
TION FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION 
OF THE POOR. 

Number of pupils, 3,000; average attendance, 2,000. Five 
sessions each week from June 21st to August 29th. Ages, from 6 to 
16 for girls, and 8 to 12 for boys. 

Vacation schools are for the purpose of taking as many children 
as possible off the streets during the summer, and giving them useful 
manual training in such a manner that learning becomes a recreation. 

The schools — the use of which is kindly given us by the Board 
of Education — are situated in those parts of the city where the pop- 
ulation is densest. 

The popularity of the schools is attested by the eagerness with 
which the little ones clamor to be admitted, and the good accom- 
plished there is far greater than the promoters anticipated. 

The enthusiasm manifested by the children is contagious. 
Hundreds of visitors last summer carried away with them a delight- 
ful memory not to be effaced by years. Perhaps no charity more 
thoroughly demonstrates its value, or justifies its existence, and the 
Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, which has con- 
ducted the schools for the past three years, feels that in making an 
appeal for sufficient funds to operate not less than ten schools during 
the coming summer — four more than last season — it will meet with 
a ready response from the generous who will gladly cooperate in 
helping the poor and in benefiting our great city in so practical and 
gladsome a manner. 

Each school costs the Association ^1,000. Ten thousand dollars 
will therefore be needed. 

[See Advertisement, page ii.] 
60 

VERMILYE CHAPEL SEWING SCHOOL, 

794 Tenth Avenue, New York City. 

(48th Street Collegiate Church.) 

Number of pupils, 224; average attendance, 154, Ages, from 3 

to 14 years. Term from first Saturday in November to the last 

Saturday in April. 



48 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

6i 

WEST SIDE DAY NURSERY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, 

266 West 140th Street, New York City. 

Number of scholars, 40; average attendance, 28. Ages, 5 to 15 
years; average age, 9 years. Five sessions held a week, from Mon-- 
day to Saturday, afternoons from 3 to 5. School term from Novem- 
ber to May. Two afternoons are devoted to sewing, two to crochet- 
ing and knitting, and one to cooking. One paid teacher only for 
each session of the school. The number of pupils is limited by the 
Board of Health to 30, on account of size of rooms. The children 
pay 10 cents a week for instruction and generally earn it themselves. 
The afternoon sessions coming after school hours, the girls are not 
as fresh as when attending Saturday morning schools. The crochet 
and knitting work of the exhibit is made from pupil's own materials, 
and the articles such as they made are for home use, not especially for 
exhibition purposes, and were made without aid from the teacher. 
Most of the pupils were once children of the Day Nursery. 

62 
WORKINGMAN'S SCHOOL, 

109 West 54th Street, New York City. 

The cards represent the work of the different grades as it is car- 
ried on this year. Owing to a change in the course, we have been 
obliged, in one or two instances, to substitute teachers' samples for 
pupils' work. In the two lowest classes boys and girls work 
together. In the Third Year, the tucking, gauging, and gathering 
patches, lead to the apron, in which the principles of tucking, gaug- 
ing, and gathering to a band are practically applied. Then follow 
the different plackets and gussets. 

In the Fourth Year, the principles of weaving and darning are 
taught. Also the cutting and joining of bias, and the joining of 
material so as to match design. Then a round apron is draughted 
and made. This apron is faced with bias strips. 

In the Fifth Year, the different flaps and flys, child's drawers, 
and buttonholes and patching are introduced. 

The Sixth Year girls join embroidery so as to match design, prac- 
tise feather stitching, and make a chemise and night-gown by hand 
and machine. The patterns for all the garments are draughted by 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 49 

the children from actual measurements. Each child is required to 
write a description of the draught, also to describe how the garment 
is made, and to sketch it when finished, thus connecting the sewing 
with the language and art worker. We have enclosed a number 
of draughts and descriptions of the different garments. 

In the Seventh Year, elementary millinery is taught. 

In the Eighth and Latin Classes, girls draught waists, using the 
Brown system. Each child makes a simple dress for herself. 

In all classes but the last named the school furnishes materials. 

The work of the Seventh and Eighth Grades is not far enough 
advanced this year to enable us to send finished samples ; the work 
of last year having been taken away by pupils. 

The children in the sewing classes are within the ages of 6 and 
17. The school term begins about September 15th, and ends about 
June 15th. 

P^ach class has one session a week ; the primaries, of three-quar- 
ters to one hour ; the upper grades, an hour and a half. There are 
about 182 in the schools who are taught sewing. This number 
includes the boys of the primary classes. 

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF 
BROOKLYN, 

Schermerhorn Street and Flatbush Avenue. 

1. Age of pupils in Junior Sewing Classes, 10 to 15 years. In 
the Adult Classes, 15 to 35 years. 

2. Terms begin October ist and end July ist. 

3. One session per week in all classes except the adult white 
sewing class, which meets twice a week, and the Trade Millinery 
Class, which meets five days in the week. 

4. Evening classes in White Sewing, and Dressmaker's Training 
and the Junior White Sewing Class are free. A nominal sum is 
charged in all other classes. 

Many of the pupils in the adult Sewing, Dressmaking, and Mil- 
linery Classes are young women who are fitting themselves for busi- 
ness positions. The larger number have had no training in Sewing. 
Occasionally there are young married women in the classes. 

Most of the pupils in the Evening Classes are working women or 
girls, employed in Factories, or as Domestics, Housekeepers, Sales- 
women, Stenographers, Telegraph Operators, Teachers, etc. 
4 



50 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

The Day Classes— with the exception of the Millinery Trade 
Course — are mostly composed of young women who are not obliged 
to support themselves, but wish to make their own clothing and hats. 

64 

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE 

CITY OF NEW YORK, 

7 East 15th Street. 

Number of pupils, 1,202. 

Courses in Hand and Machine Sewing. 

First course, 26 lessons of 2 hours each, 2 per week. 
Second course, 16 lessons of 2 hours each, 2 per week. 
Third course, 14 lessons of 2 hours each, 2 per week. 
Fourth course, 14 lessons of 2 hours each, 2 per week. 

Dressmakers' Training Classes. 

First Course. 

Day classes, 10 lessons of 2 hours each, 2 per week. 
Evening classes, 10 lessons of 2 hours each, i per week. 

Second Course. 

Cut and Fit, day classes, 15 lessons of 2 hours each, 3 per week, 
including system. 

Cut and Fit, evening classes, 15 lessons of 2 hours each, 2 per 
week, including system. 

Third Course. 

Finishing, day classes, 14 lessons of 2 hours each, 3 per week. 
Finishing, evening classes, 14 lessons of 2 hours each, i per 
week. 

Classes in Dress Repairs. 

Evening classes, 10 lessons of 2 hours each, 2 per week. 

Millinery. 

First course, 24 lessons, 4 day lessons, 2 evening lessons per 
week. 

Second course, 24 lessons, 4 day lessons, 2 evening lessons per 
week. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 51 

Third course, 20 lessons, 4 day lessons, 2 evening lessons per 
week. 

Course in Feather Curling, 10 lessons, day and evening classes. 

65 
YOUNG WOMEN'S SECTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL 

ALLIANCE, 

East Broadway and Jefferson Street, New York City. 

Age of pupils ranges from 9 to 14 years. 

Term begins first Monday in September and closes last Thursday 
in July. 

First Division of six classes holds 2 sessions per week. 

The Second Division of five classes holds one session per week. 

Number of pupils of Sewing Schools is 500. 



GALLERY E. 



EXHIBITS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



66. 


Belgium, 






71. 


Japan. 


6-1. 


England. 






72. 


Mexico. 


68. 


France. 






73- 


Russia. 


69. 


Germany. 






74. 


Sweden. 


70. 


Hawaiian 


ISLA 


nds. 


75- 


Switzerland, 



The Governments of Germany and Russia, not having sent 
exhibits, specimens made in schools of those countries are loaned 
by the Treasurer of the Association, and by the Teachers College. 



66 

BELGIUM. 

The Burgomasters of Brussels and of Ghent send exhibits from 
professional schools for young girls, which, under the patronage of 
the State and Communal Governments, were founded in 1865 by the 
Association for the Professional Education of Women. 

The instruction comprises general and special courses. The 
former is obligatory for all pupils. The latter gives training (or 
special professions or trades. 

The general course includes the French and Flemish languages, 
arithmetic, bookkeeping, history, geography, rudiments of natural 
sciences, hygiene, domestic economy, writing, drawing, manual 
training, singing, gymnastics, and cooking. 

The special courses are : 

1. Business, applied arithmetic, bookkeeping, commercial law, 
commercial geography, the English and German languages. 

2. Dressmaking. 

3. Lingerie. 

4. Industrial design ; laces, embroideries. 

5. Artificial flowers. 

6. Painting on porcelain, pottery, glass, and fans. 

7. Modes. 

8. Corsets. 

No pupils are admitted under twelve years of age, and they must 
have received a primary education. Diplomas and certificates of 
ability are given to pupils in all the professional courses who submit 
to the necessary examination. The fee for tuition is $7.20 a quarter, 
payable in advance, October ist, December 20th, March loth, and 
June ist. 



56 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

BRUSSELS. 

PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL. 

1. Note books, 
Sewing, 

Drafting, First, Second, and Third years, 

Designing, 

Bills of exchange, bills of lading, 

Notes, correspondence, etc. 

2. Domestic economy. First, Second, and Third years. 
Cooking, " "■ " " 
Hygiene, " " " " 

3. Professional bookkeeping, 
Domestic bookkeeping. 

4. Mending. 

5. Specimens of sewing. 

6. Designing, 

Ornamental, 

From nature. 

GHENT. 

PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL. 

7. Text books, 
Organization of school, 

Materials, 
Grammar, 
Arithmetic, 
Geography. 

8. Study of Materials, 

First year. 

Second year. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 57 

9. Drafting, 

First year, 

Second year, 
Third year. 

10. Designing, 

First year, 

Second year, 
Third year. 

67 

ENGLAND. 

In the schools under the direction of the School Board for Lon- 
don, sewing is taught in seven grades or standards in the Girls' and 
Infants' Departments, and also to the pupil teachers. The age of 
children attending the Infant Schools varies from 3 to 7. The 
younger ones are taught to thread their needles, put on their 
thimbles and hold their work by means of what is called " drill," i.e., 
simultaneous action at a given word of command. They are also 
taught later to knit. The adoption of this system in the Infant 
Schools has become universal in consequence of the large size of 
the classes, and also because the children learn with much greater 
ease than if taught individually. 

Needlework and cutting-out are taught three hours each week in 
the Upper Schools by simultaneous methods, and the various teaching 
appliances in use in the schools are included in the London School 
Board Exhibit. 

All materials for teaching the various stitches, etc., required by the 
Government Code, are sent in to the schools from the Board's stores 
(at the beginning of each school year), as also the material for the 
requisite garments to be made by the children, which are sold at 
cost price at the end of the school year, after being examined by the 
government inspectors. 

Cutting-out, patching and darning old garments, and dressmaking 
are also taught. The former is obligatory, the two latter subjects 
are not compulsory, though encouraged by the Board where the sur- 
rounding conditions are favorable. 

The head mistress of a school divides the year's work into four 



58 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

parts, and draws up her own syllabus for each quarter. The classes 
are examined by her at the end of each quarter, marks are given by 
her, the percentage of the same is taken, and the total assessed 
accordingly (see scale below). 

The London School Board employs three women examiners, 
whose duty it is to visit the various schools. By this the work is 
kept up to as high a level as possible, and methods, etc., suggested 
to the teachers. 

Scale of assessments by percentage of marks : 

loo to 90 Excellent, 90 to 80 Very Good, 

80 to 70 Good, 70 to 60 Very Fair, 

60 to 50 Fair, 50 to 40 Weak, 

Below 40 Very Weak. 

The other branches of household training, cooking, laundry and 
general housework, are also taught in small buildings built within 
the school enclosure. They are called Cooking and Laundry Centres, 
the older pupils from several schools in a district coming to a given 
Centre for instruction. 

The specimens from thirty-one schools include the preparatory 
stitches, examples of darning, handkerchiefs, aprons, chemises, night- 
gowns, dresses for children and girls, dolls, stockings and various 
knitted and crocheted articles and designs in color. 



L Needlework. 

SCHOOL. DEPARTMENT. 

1. Adys Road, Girls. 

" " Infants. 

2. Basnet Road, " 

3. Beresford Street, Girls. 

Infants. 

4. Church Street, Clapham, Girls. 

5. Ecclesbourne Road, " 

" " Infants. 

6. Eltringham Street, " 

7. Gideon Road, Girls. 

8. Holland Street, " 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 



59 



SCHOOL. 

9. Hecton's Road, 

10. Medburn Street, 

11. Montem Street, 

12. Nunhead Passage, 

13. Napier Street, 

14. Oldridge Road, 

15. Oxford Gardens, 

16. Plough Road, 

17. Peckham Park, 

18. Reddens' Road, 

19. St. Dunstan's Road, 

20. Surrey Lane, 

21. Webb Street, 

22. West Square, 

23. Wood's Road, 

24. Whitfield Street, 

25. Wilton Road, 

<< a 

26. White Lion Street, 

27. Woodland Road. 



DEPARTMENT. 

Girls. 



Infants. 
Girls. 



Infants. 

Girls. 

Infants. 



Girls. 
<( 

Infants. 
Girls. 

Infants. 
Girls. 



II. Articles for Demonstration in Needlework, Books, Etc. 

28. Laubert's Demonstration Pieces with stand for frame. 

29. Stockwell Demonstration Frame. 

30. Ordinary. 

31. Demonstration Sheets (Griffiths & Farren). 

32. Charts, etc., of the four systems of dress cutting used by the 
Board. 

2^2)- Case of specimens. 

34. Sheet of specimens and drawings. 

35. Card, showing working in Standard III. 

36. Design for a lady's zouave jacket. 



6o EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

2fi. Text Books on needlework. 

Needlework for student teachers. 
Needlework for continuation schools. 
Needlework and cutting out. 
Needlework, knitting, cutting out (4 books). 
Pattern-making by paper folding. 
Self-teaching, needlework manual. 

III. Advanced Kindergarten Occupations. 

SCHOOL. DEPARTMENT. 

38. Victoria Place, Girls. 

39. Buckingham Terrace, " 

40. Choumest Road, " 

41. Medburn Street, " 

42. The Highway, " 

43. Holland Street, " 

44. Beethoven Street, " 

45. St. Dunstan's Road, " 

46. Sherbrooke Road. " 

IV. Note-Books and Drawings — Illustrative. 

SCHOOL. department. 

47. Sherbrooke Road, Girls. 

48. Medburn Street, " 

49. Lavender Hill, " 

50. Gideon Road, " 

51. Burghly Road. " 

Old English Sewing Book loaned by Miss Knox. 

The history of this book is that the grandfather of Miss Knox, 
Rev. John Mason, of the Scotch Presbyterian Church of New York, 
on one of his visits to England, was interested in the work of the 
so-called " Ragged Schools," and that this book was sent to him at 
that time by order of the Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria. 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 6i 

It shows that the systematic graded training of children, in- 
cluding the folding of paper hems, and thence advancing to the 
making of garments, was taught in the schools of that period. 

68 
FRANCE. 

Sewing is taught in all grades of the public schools, the infants' 
schools, the normal school and the normal class included. 

In the latter class teachers may prepare themselves to take the 
necessary examinations to obtain the certificate for teaching sewing 
and industrial designing. The use of the needle and pencil is 
taught simultaneously, especially in the professional schools, where, 
as in Belgium, girls from thirteen to sixteen years of age receive in- 
struction in the manual professions or trades, dressmaking, cooking, 
laundry work, the making of corsets, flowers, etc. 

This practical education for women in France received its first 
impetus from Madame Eliza Lemonnier, who, in 1856, formed the 
"Society for the Protection of Young Girls." In 1862 this was 
changed to the "Society for the Professional Teaching of Women," 
and its first school was opened. 

The municipality of Paris later adopted its methods, and the 
French Government has developed that system of schools for pro- 
fessional teaching of boys and girls which has had so great an in- 
fluence upon the industrial life of France. 

SCHOOL. 

1. Rue des Volontaires. 

2. Rue Fondary, 

3. Rue Bossuet. 

4. Normal School. 

5. Normal Class. 

69 

GERMANY. 

In the public schools sewing is taught three and four hours each 
week. In the girl's high school at Wiesbaden two hours a week are 
devoted to it. It is first taught in the fifth school year, knitting, 



G2 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

crocheting and cross-stitch being given in the previous years. The 
course includes : 

1. First sewing year, stitches and simple seams. 

2. Second sewing year, patching. 

3. Third sewing year, darning. 

4. Fourth sewing year, household embroidery. 
A chemise is made in the third year. 



70 

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 

HONOLULU. 

PoHUKAiNA School. 
First years course, 40 lessons in hand sewing. 

Miss Laura Duncan of Honolulu writes : 

" Three years ago the Board of Education placed $50.00 with me 
and asked me to put plain sewing into my school of 190 Hawaiian 
girls, and to make out a plan for the work to be sent out to all the 
government schools. I send you the forty lessons as I arranged 
them, and as they are now being carried out in thirty-one different 
schools. 

" 1,154 girls, Hawaiian half-caste, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, 
and a few whites are doing the work under the supervision of the 
government school teachers. 

" I have had no outside help, and feel that much more might be 
done, in the lower grade of sewing, if work was graded to corres- 
pond with the grades in school-work." 



71 
JAPAN. 

The Minister of Education of Japan sends industrial drawings 
and specimens of materials and instruments for hand-work, and also 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 63 

for showing the processes of instruction in sewing, and for the mak- 
ing of garments for men, women, and children. 

A, Industrial Drawings by the Pupils of the Higher 
Normal School for Females. 

1. First and second year classes (between 17 J^- and 2i| years of 
age). 

2. Fourth year classes (between 19I- and 25 1 years of age). 

B. Industrial Drawings by the Pupils of the Higher Fe- 

male School attached to the Higher Normal School. 

1. First year class (between 10 and 14^ years of age). 

2. Second year class (between 11 ^ and 14I years of age). 

3. Third year class (between ii^^g- and 14I years of age). 

4. Fourth year class — a — (between 12 and i6jV years). 

5. Fourth year class — b — (between 12 and 16^-^2 years). 

6. Fifth year class — a — (between 12^ and 17I years). 

7. Fifth year class — b — (between 12^ and i7|- years). 

8. Sixth year class (between iSy^ and 18^ years of age). 

C. Specimens Showing the Processes of Instruction in 

Sewing in the Higher Female School attached to 
THE Higher Normal School. 

1. First year class, Nos. i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 

2. Second year class, Nos. 10, n, 12, 13, 14. 

3. Third year class, Nos. 15, r6, 17, 18, 19. 

4. Fourth year class, Nos. 20, 21, 22, 23. 

5. Fifth year class, Nos. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. 

6. Sixth year class, Nos. 31, 32. 

D. Handiwork of the Pupils of the Ordinary Elementary 

Course attached to the Higher Normal School. 

1. First year class (between dJ^- and 7|4- years). 

2. Second year class (between 7 and 9^ years of age). 

3. Third year class (between 7^ and loi years). 

4. Fourth year class (between 9^ and ii| years). 



64 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

E. Materials and Instruments for Handiwork in the 

Ordinary Elementary Course attached to the 
Higher Normal School. 

F. Drawings by the Pupils {\b\ to i8 Years of Age) of 

the Supplementary Course in the Higher Female 
School attached to the Higher Normal School. 

G. Specimens of Work from the Technical School at Kana- 

zawa, to which was awarded the First Prize for 
Women's Work ever given in Japan. 

[Loaned by Dr. Thomas Egleston.] 

72 

MEXICO. 

Specimens of drawn work from a girl's boarding-school at Sal- 
titto, Mexico. 

RUSSIA. 

Specimens showing the course of instruction in plain sewing in 
professional schools. 

74 
SWEDEN. 

A series of models illustrating Miss Hulda Lundin's system of 
teaching girls' sloyd. (This term includes all kinds of handiwork.) 

The models are made by pupils in the public schools (primary 
and grammar) of Stockholm. Age, 7 to 14 years. 

The aim of the instruction in girls' sloyd is : 

I. To exercise hand and eye ; 
n. To quicken the power of thought ; 
HI. To strengthen love of order ; 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 65 

IV. To develop independence ; 
V. To inspire respect for carefully and intelligently executed 

work ; and at the same time 
VI. To prepare girls for the execution of their domestic duties. 
The instruction has two objects in view : 

a. It shall be an educational medium ; 

b. It shall fit the girls for practical life. 

Experience has proveh that the desired results can be best 
reached by 

1. Practical demonstration of the subject J 

2. Progressive order with regard to the exercises ; and 

3. Class instruction. 

(i) Practical demonstration in sewing is given by means of a 
sewing frame, and in knitting by means of large wooden needles and 
colored balls of yarn ; and also by drawings on the blackboard. 

(2) The exercises are planned and carried out in the most 
strictly progressive order, so as to enable the pupils to execute well 
the work required of them. 

(3) The instruction in sloyd should — like that in other branches 
— be given to the whole class at the same time, otherwise the time 
which the teacher could devote to each pupil separately, would be 
insufficient to secure the desired results. 

In order to illustrate the progress from the simple to the more 
complex in the teaching of sloyd, we give the following class 
divisions of the subjects, which are in use at the present time in the 
public schools of Stockholm. 

Standard I. 

1. Plain knitting with 2 needles : a pair of garters. 

2. Plain knitting : a pair of warm wristers. 

Standard II. 

3. Plain knitting : a towel. — Practice in the different kinds of 
stitches : running, stitching, hemming, and overcasting : a lamp- 
mat. 

4. The application of the already named stitches : one small 
and one large needlework bag. 

5 



66 EXHIBITION OF SEWING 

Standard III, 

5. A needlework case. Simple darning on canvas : a mat for a 
candlestick. 

6. An apron. 

Standard IV. 

7. Plain and purl knitting : slate-eraser and a pair of mittens. 

8. A plain chemise. 

Standard V. 

9. Knitting : a pair of stockings. 

10. Drawing the pattern, cutting out, and making a chemise. 

Standard VI, 

11. Patching on colored material. Plain stocking-darning. 
Button-holes. Buttons made of thread. Sewing on tapes, hooks, 
and eyes. 

12. Drawing the pattern, cutting out, and making a shirt or a 
pair of drawers. 

Standard VII. 

13. Fine darning and marking. Drawing the pattern for a dress. 
Cutting out articles such as are required in Standards II. — IV. 

14. Drawing the pattern, cutting out, and making a dress. 



The time given to needlework : 




Standard I 


2 hours a week, 


II., III. and IV. . 


4 " " " 


V. and VI. , 


5 " " " 


'' VII 


6 " " " 


75 




SWITZERLAND. 





In the cities of Geneva and Zurich sewing is obligatory in the 
public schools. In the former place it is taught for six years of the 
school course, in the latter for three years, and optional for three 
more. From three to six hours each week are devoted to it. In 
Geneva manual training begins in the first school year. It includes 



AMERICAN ART GALLERIES. 67 

various kinds of sewing, mending, household embroidery, knitting, 
crocheting and the cutting of garments. On the latter and upon 
mending great importance is laid. In all the schools the teaching is 
methodical, progressive and collective. Explanations and demon- 
strations are first given to the entire class by the use of the black- 
board and demonstration frame ; later to the individual pupil. 

After having drawn, in a progressive manner, designs and pat- 
terns in their note-books, the scholars are taught to draught and cut 
in paper, especially prepared for the purpose, patterns for the gar- 
ments which they are to make later in materials. The cheapness of 
the paper permits many copies of the same garment to be made. 

Examinations are held at the close of each school year by an 
inspectress, who, in addition to directing the work of the classes of 
sewing in the Canton of Geneva, arranges the programme and teaches 
a normal class. In this the young teachers receive instructions as to 
the methods and pedagogic rules which they should follow. The 
specimens include knitting, preparatory stitches, darning and patch- 
ing, designs for draughting of patterns, and the making of garments. 



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